Loralea Sanderson went through eight cycles of chemotherapy when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. At the time, her mother was terminally ill and losing her second battle with the disease. So “I was very aggressive with [the treatment]. The key is to stay ahead of it,” says Sanderson, VP for finance and administration at Centric Business Systems in Owings Mills, MD. She was also a single mom to a six-year-old daughter. “I [needed] to do whatever I had to do because I [needed] to be here for her,” she says. The treatment worked: Sanderson’s cancer went into remission. Read entire article